/* * RapidMiner * * Copyright (C) 2001-2011 by Rapid-I and the contributors * * Complete list of developers available at our web site: * * http://rapid-i.com * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Affero General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License * along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. */ package com.rapidminer.operator.learner.tree.criterions; import com.rapidminer.example.Attribute; import com.rapidminer.example.ExampleSet; import com.rapidminer.operator.learner.tree.FrequencyCalculator; import com.rapidminer.operator.learner.tree.MinimalGainHandler; /** * This criterion implements the well known information gain in * order to calculate the benefit of a split. The information gain * is defined as the change in entropy from a prior state to a * state that takes some information as given by the entropy. * * @author Sebastian Land, Ingo Mierswa */ public class InfoGainCriterion extends AbstractCriterion implements MinimalGainHandler { private static double LOG_FACTOR = 1d / Math.log(2); private FrequencyCalculator frequencyCalculator = new FrequencyCalculator(); private double minimalGain = 0.1; public InfoGainCriterion() {} public InfoGainCriterion(double minimalGain) { this.minimalGain = minimalGain; } public void setMinimalGain(double minimalGain) { this.minimalGain = minimalGain; } public double getNominalBenefit(ExampleSet exampleSet, Attribute attribute) { double[][] weightCounts = frequencyCalculator.getNominalWeightCounts(exampleSet, attribute); return getBenefit(weightCounts); } public double getNumericalBenefit(ExampleSet exampleSet, Attribute attribute, double splitValue) { double[][] weightCounts = frequencyCalculator.getNumericalWeightCounts(exampleSet, attribute, splitValue); return getBenefit(weightCounts); } public double getBenefit(double[][] weightCounts) { int numberOfValues = weightCounts.length; int numberOfLabels = weightCounts[0].length; // calculate entropies double[] entropies = new double[numberOfValues]; double[] totalWeights = new double[numberOfValues]; for (int v = 0; v < numberOfValues; v++) { for (int l = 0; l < numberOfLabels; l++) { totalWeights[v] += weightCounts[v][l]; } for (int l = 0; l < numberOfLabels; l++) { if (weightCounts[v][l] > 0) { double proportion = weightCounts[v][l] / totalWeights[v]; entropies[v] -= (Math.log(proportion) * LOG_FACTOR) * proportion; } } } // calculate information amount WITH this attribute double totalWeight = 0.0d; for (double w : totalWeights) { totalWeight += w; } double information = 0.0d; for (int v = 0; v < numberOfValues; v++) { information += totalWeights[v] / totalWeight * entropies[v]; } // calculate information amount WITHOUT this attribute double[] classWeights = new double[numberOfLabels]; for (int l = 0; l < numberOfLabels; l++) { for (int v = 0; v < numberOfValues; v++) { classWeights[l] += weightCounts[v][l]; } } double totalClassWeight = 0.0d; for (double w : classWeights) { totalClassWeight += w; } double classEntropy = 0.0d; for (int l = 0; l < numberOfLabels; l++) { if (classWeights[l] > 0) { double proportion = classWeights[l] / totalClassWeight; classEntropy -= (Math.log(proportion) * LOG_FACTOR) * proportion; } } // calculate and return information gain double informationGain = classEntropy - information; if (informationGain < minimalGain * classEntropy) { informationGain = 0; } return informationGain; } protected double getEntropy(double[] labelWeights, double totalWeight) { double entropy = 0; for (int i = 0; i < labelWeights.length; i++) { if (labelWeights[i] > 0) { double proportion = labelWeights[i] / totalWeight; entropy -= (Math.log(proportion) * LOG_FACTOR) * proportion; } } return entropy; } @Override public boolean supportsIncrementalCalculation() { return true; } @Override public double getIncrementalBenefit() { double totalEntropy = getEntropy(totalLabelWeights, totalWeight); double gain = getEntropy(leftLabelWeights, leftWeight) * leftWeight / totalWeight; gain += getEntropy(rightLabelWeights, rightWeight) * rightWeight / totalWeight; return totalEntropy - gain; } }